2026 BHM Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. Abolitionist and powerful speaker for freedom and women’s rights.
  2. 4. Writer of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”.
  3. 5. African American literary and artistic movement of the 1920s.
  4. 6. Celebration held each February in the U.S.
  5. 9. African American musical genre rooted in spirituals and blues.
  6. 10. Organization founded in 1909 to advance civil rights through legal action.
  7. 14. Term that means Freedom and fairness under the law.
  8. 15. Historically black college founded in 1867 in Washington, D.C.
  9. 17. Reconstruction-era constitutional amendment guaranteeing birthright citizenship.
  10. 19. Abolitionist newspaper published by Frederick Douglass.
  11. 20. First African American president of the United States.
Down
  1. 2. Baseball player who broke the color barrier.
  2. 3. NASA mathematician portrayed in Hidden Figures.
  3. 7. First African American woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
  4. 8. Leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
  5. 11. Supreme Court justice who argued Brown v. Board of Education.
  6. 12. Civil rights activist known for advocating Black empowerment.
  7. 13. 19th-century African American intellectual who co-founded the NAACP.
  8. 16. Supreme Court case that ended legal school segregation in 1954.
  9. 18. Nonviolent form of resistance used during the Civil Rights Movement.